Think about it — wealthy NYC real estate owners / developers have found that if they give huge amounts of money to upstate Senate campaigns they can assure those Senators will look after their interests (i.e. - screw renters) while these Senators regularly run for office telling
the upstate rubes to be afraid of NYC political domination.
Sheldon silver is gone so they need to elevate someone to make the
rubes fearful of... with leaders of
upstate counties being made uncomfortable about the shift of Medicaid back onto each locality this may not give the TEAPublicans the traction they were hoping for.